Hi friends! I'm traveling this week (more on that later) but popping in today to share some delicious & nutritious recipes - all of which include matcha! If you aren't all that familiar with matcha, it's a type of green tea made from grinding tea leaves into a powder. The leaves are left intact, as opposed to regular green tea, where the leaves are infused in water and then removed - which makes matcha super antioxidant-rich. Matcha has been grown and consumed in Japan for centuries, but it only become popular in the U.S. in recent years. Matcha has a strong, earthy taste, but it can certainly be used for more than just a conventional cup of matcha tea. I create recipes for Shape, and recently they had me on a matcha kick developing several recipes using the green tea ... [Read More]
matcha muffins
Healthy Chocolate Chip Matcha Banana Muffins [vegan + gluten free]
This is the story about how I tried three times to create a naturally green recipe and totally failed... but came up with two yummy recipes in the process! St. Paddy's Day is coming up this Friday, and I was actually thinking ahead a few weeks ago when I decided I wanted to come up with a sweet recipe that had a green hue, sans food coloring. I first heard that the chlorophyll in sunflower butter can turn baked goods green when it interacts with baking soda/powder when a friend of mine accidentally wound up with a green colored sunflower butter recipe, so my original idea was to make sunflower butter banana muffins. The result? They did not turn green, and they also turned out a bit dry, so it was a no go. I decided it was possible that because I mixed all of my muffin ... [Read More]